TikToker Wasilat Olalere has denied claims she secretly recorded the annual Oloolu masquerade festival in Ibadan, Oyo State while stating that she is alive, hale and hearty.
Speaking during an interview on Lagelu FM’s Ibi Aye N Lo programme, Wasilat said the claims circulating on social media are false, insisting that she never recorded the revered masquerade.
“I am not de@d. I did not record the Oloolu masquerade. May I never be implicated in such a thing because I did not film Oloolu,” she said
Recounting what had happened, Wasilat explained that she was at home before deciding to visit her family’s shop in the Oremeji area on the day of the incident.
“What happened that day, last Thursday, around the Oremeji axis, I don’t know what prompted me to go to our shop because I was at home. When I got to the shop, I didn’t even open it. I just stayed in front of the shop because we had packed up from that area.
When I saw people passing, I saw an Amotekun vehicle passing. Oloolu did not even pass through that route. Oloolu did not even pass through that route. I only recorded what I saw and uploaded it on TikTok. People in the comment section immediately asked me to delete the video which I did. The following day, some people came to meet me at the shop.
Wasilat said that following the incident, she was taken to Ode Aje, where the prescribed traditional appeasement rites were carried out in response to allegations that she had filmed the sacred Oloolu masquerade.
The traditionalists dressed her in red attire and shaved her hair during the rites. A goat was also slaughtered as part of the ceremony.
